An update to the ‘Unity Cities Scope‘ has added wind speed and Fahrenheit to its roster of location-based stats.

Windspeed is displayed in both ‘km/h‘ (Kilometers per hour) and ‘mph‘ (miles per hour). Temperature is now displayed in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.

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Installing the Cities Scope in Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04

Unity Cities Scope is available to install from the ‘Scopes Packagers’ PPA.

Open a new Terminal and enter the following two commands carefully, inputting your user password when prompted.

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa
  • sudo apt-get update &&  sudo apt-get install unity-lens-utilities unity-scope-cities
You will need to log out and back in in order for the scope to take effect.
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